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Student in Facebook row over fare dodging video asks judge for press gag


Eoin McKeogh outside the High Court.


A STUDENT at DCU who claims he was falsely accused of being a taxi fare dodger in an online video is seeking an injunction to stop newspapers from identifying him.

Some lawyers claimed that Eoin McKeogh was attempting to seek a "super-injunction" such as those obtained by celebrities seeking to avoid publicity in the UK.

Earlier this week, Mr McKeogh obtained temporary injunctions against a number of internet parties including Facebook and Google, stopping them from showing the material, which he says defames him by falsely alleging he was guilty of taxi fare evasion.

Mr McKeogh (22), who is studying international business and Japanese at DCU, says he wasn't in the country at the time of the alleged incident.

Yesterday, in the High Court, Dublin, he applied for further orders prohibiting six national newspapers from identifying him. His application was against Independent Newspapers, the 'Irish Times', the 'Irish Examiner', the 'Star' and the 'Sunday Times'.

Mr Justice Michael Peart said he would hear Mr McKeogh's application today.

Pauline Walley, counsel for Mr McKeogh, said she was not seeking a super-injunction but was asking the newspapers not to publish his identity pending a ruling.

Simon McAleese, for Independent Newspapers and Shane English, for the 'Star' and 'Examiner', said they would not be giving such an undertaking. Rossa Fanning, for Facebook, said: "The genie or smoke was out of the bottle."

Andrew O'Rorke, solicitor for the Irish Times, said his client should no longer be in the case; while Gary Compton, for the 'Sunday Times', said a super-injunction was being sought against his client.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news ... 95087.html

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Lol heres the alleged video its been removed from youtube but is still available here

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnal3a_dublin-taxi-customers-do-runner_news

While the Video make the case for the Prosecution very adequately.

It is likely that the posting of the Video has made a Conviction difficult, or even impossible.

I think that we should follow this case as it will help us know how we may need to handle Video evidence, of Customers, and the type of CCTV Set-up that should/could be installed

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CCTV footage is regulaly published before a trial and this seems to be accepted.

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I didn't know that

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Interesting video. I'm not sure the bloke in the vid is the same one in the photo though (ears look different), and if he says he was out of the country shouldn't be hard to prove.
The driver knew something wasn't right as he adjusts the camera angle at the end to get a better shot of his face.

One for crimewatch perhaps ?

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he was on the phone, his mobile records would confirm it, id say its him

arent ALL the passengers equally as guilty?

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i wouldn't have thought so because he collected money off them towards the fare so i suspect he was planning this alone

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

but they "passed" him money that didnt exist (looking at the video) so maybe a conspiracy charge would be nice, and that carries jail time, and how can a student afford a high court injunction?

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Maybe he has a few sidelines like drug dealing or perhaps daddy is rich

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It wasnt him !

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090070/Eoin-McKeogh-falsely-branded-thief-worlds-biggest-websites.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

havent the other 4 in the car come forward to name the culprit?


course not, they may be guilty as well

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Yep, in the article it says the real culprit has come forward !